Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.
‐‐ Andrew Lawrence
Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
‐‐ Antoine Rivarol
Memory and creativity are essential to education, but if you teach memory incorrectly, it is a total waste of time, and it will inhibit learning.
‐‐ Tony Buzan
Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
‐‐ Lisel Mueller
Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.
‐‐ Dara Horn
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller
Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded.
‐‐ David Perlmutter
Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it.
‐‐ John Updike
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
‐‐ Seamus Heaney
Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.
‐‐ Eric Kandel
Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
‐‐ Aubrey de Vere
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
‐‐ Charlotte Bronte
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver
Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.
‐‐ Chelsea Cain
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
‐‐ Andre Maurois
Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.
‐‐ Jessamyn West
Memory is a powerful thing for a writer.
‐‐ Bobbie Ann Mason
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
‐‐ Albert Einstein
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
‐‐ Tobias Wolff
Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.
‐‐ Gilbert Parker
Memory is more indelible than ink.
‐‐ Anita Loos
Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
‐‐ Dana Spiotta
Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.
‐‐ Alice McDermott
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
‐‐ Martin Farquhar Tupper
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
‐‐ David Halberstam
Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.
‐‐ Graydon Carter
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.
‐‐ Kazuo Ishiguro
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
‐‐ Candice Bergen
Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.
‐‐ Janet Fitch
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
‐‐ Maurice Baring
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
‐‐ Aeschylus
Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
‐‐ Richard Schickel
Memory is the thing you forget with.
‐‐ Alexander Chase
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
‐‐ Alice Munro
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
‐‐ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.
‐‐ Hilary Mantel
Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.
‐‐ Gunter Grass
Memory narrativises itself.
‐‐ Aleksandar Hemon
'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey
Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.
‐‐ Steve Erickson
Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
‐‐ Harold Brodkey
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.
‐‐ Lactantius
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
‐‐ Derek Walcott
Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.
‐‐ Joshua Foer
Memory works according to meaning, and when something is important to you, the Google in your brain brings it forward all of a sudden.
‐‐ Stephen Tobolowsky